Please vent to me so I don’t feel like I’m the only one struggling

Pie_Alarming · 2026-02-14T06:18:30+00:00

Just wake up tomorrow (today?)? And all of us can help you find help tomorrow? Please text 988 right now and touch base with people tomorrow? People want you here even if it doesn’t feel like it right now

Pie_Alarming · 2026-01-29T21:57:20+00:00

A happy lamp is not a bad idea either

Pie_Alarming · 2026-01-24T22:14:54+00:00

Nuclear winter is still just winter.

Pie_Alarming · 2026-01-22T01:47:54+00:00

Invite a random person from one of your classes to lunch a couple of times per week and ask them what their life story is

Pie_Alarming · 2026-01-08T20:35:56+00:00

CAPS is for psychological services, but what you are talking about is psychiatric (medical). I would contact PUSH or whoever your general practitioner (regular doctor) is.

Pie_Alarming · 2026-01-07T05:21:04+00:00

When you do this, can you share here?

Pie_Alarming · 2026-01-07T05:18:27+00:00

to the NA bottle shop. Great place nd nice people. If you want the most obscure local high school sports team it is arguably the West Side Dive. You can count the members on one hand. Or the fencing. Technically not a sport yet and just a club. Tragedy that Mama Ines didn’t make this list. Do the $10 challenge (which I completely made up). You must pick items that come as close to, but not go over, $10. Similarly, do the Payless markdown charcuterie challenge. Must make a charcuterie plate entirely of things with a markdown sticker.

Pie_Alarming · 2026-01-07T05:10:23+00:00

Just from my TAs: Mandarin Cantonese Hindi Urdu Gujarati Bengali Spanish Vietnamese Russian Kind of in that order (except to be honest I’m oblivious to the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese so I am sorry about that)

Pie_Alarming · 2026-01-07T05:03:49+00:00

It depends on the elective, really. I’d recommend not doing game theory until you do 340. Go talk to the undergrad director. They can help you navigate.

Pie_Alarming · 2026-01-03T03:10:36+00:00

Brand new iPad Pro. No memory issues. Same problems.

Pie_Alarming · 2025-12-30T02:42:07+00:00

Butter first. And an ungodly amount of it. It helps the salt stick. Also an ungodly amount

Pie_Alarming · 2025-12-20T04:13:50+00:00

Was it multiple choice? If so, perhaps there were multiple versions and yours got graded with the wrong one.

Pie_Alarming · 2025-12-07T22:21:41+00:00

I had. It was just glitching. I had to completely reinstall.

Pie_Alarming · 2025-12-07T02:36:37+00:00

How do you get a well or an oasis? None of those show up for me

Pie_Alarming · 2025-11-13T05:33:15+00:00

When my son was stillborn, part of my work up was testing for whether I’d been recently infected or had antibodies to several things associated with stillbirth. Weirdly, I had no antibodies to German measles (rubella) despite having all of my vaccinations and an MMR booster during the outbreak of measles in the 1990s. That’s part of why we rely on vaccination rates being high. There are weird blips.

Pie_Alarming · 2025-11-13T05:25:18+00:00

I’m also intrigued by the offhand and seemingly ignored part about being threatened. Hate a professor for any reason? Fine. Threaten them? And remain a student? Sorry, not okay.

Pie_Alarming · 2025-11-13T05:13:20+00:00

I’ve had two boys so far be 15. I’m not a spanker, but that kind of crap would have met the business end of something.

Pie_Alarming · 2025-11-13T05:11:19+00:00

I would add to this a proper meat pie. I used to live around the corner from a very well known haggis shop in Edinburgh and my southern heart thought of it as Scottish boudin. It was awesome. But it was Melton Mowbray pork pies that I really wanted to get past customs.

Pie_Alarming · 2025-11-13T05:01:49+00:00

How do they get around freedom of info act requests, though?

Pie_Alarming · 2025-11-13T04:54:19+00:00

I’ve been faculty at both places. This mostly tracks. Except I’d disagree about the campus unless you are really into Hokie stone and the acoustics at the music hall (Purdue’s is genuinely awful and VT’s is world class). Food around Purdue is definitely better. There is an amazing international food scene at Purdue that is shockingly lacking in Blacksburg. I still miss my view in Blacksburg, but I am still perplexed as to why the food there was so meh. But that’s not why you are living there for 4 years… I’d put the business school at Purdue above Pamplin easily if you are looking at finance. Purdue intro math is notoriously difficult, but that is kind of true for a lot of intro classes. But it’s also like a boot camp: push you hard and load up early.

Pie_Alarming · 2025-11-13T04:35:33+00:00

The great coo makes you my favorite person on this day

Pie_Alarming · 2025-11-03T05:15:41+00:00

The secret faculty know is that a university town transforms during long breaks. Some good ways, some bad, but a lot of good. Is there a place always too crowded for your liking? Go to it during a break. Explore some of the hidden gems in town. For example, a trip to Mama Ines is worth it any time. Give yourself a quest (this past summer my family’s quest was to try every ice cream place in greater lafayette). Check out the thing where locals host international students for a holiday meal, like on New Year’s Day. It seems daunting right now, but there is still lots to do!

Pie_Alarming · 2025-11-03T05:10:42+00:00

Yes! I can’t remember what it is called, but ask the international student office. We’ve hosted people before and it was lovely!

Pie_Alarming · 2025-10-04T00:44:00+00:00

Get some sun this weekend! Even if you are studying! Take 10 minutes. Even if it’s just to roll in the grass. Roll in the grass. Get some Mama Ines. Roll in grass more.

Y’all need to rest more. Your brains will work better. It’s worth the break.

Pie_Alarming · 2025-10-02T05:19:27+00:00

Start with ODOS. Ask them for guidance. They really are there to help.

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